rhetorical device vs anacoluthon

anacoluthon vs rhetorical device

rhetorical device and anacoluthon both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
rhetorical device	Yes	No	No	No
anacoluthon	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, anacoluthon is a hyponym of rhetorical device; that is, anacoluthon is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than rhetorical device:

rhetorical device: a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)
anacoluthon: an abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic structure to another

Other hyponyms of rhetorical device include anacoluthia, asyndeton, repetition, anastrophe, inversion, antiphrasis, antithesis, antinomasia, apophasis, aposiopesis, apostrophe, catachresis, chiasmus, climax, conversion, ecphonesis, exclamation, emphasis, enallage, epanorthosis, epiplexis, hendiadys, hypallage, hyperbaton, hypozeugma, hypozeuxis, hysteron proteron, litotes, meiosis, onomatopoeia, paraleipsis, paralepsis, paralipsis, preterition, paregmenon, polysyndeton, prolepsis, wellerism, figure, figure of speech, image, trope, dialogism, epiphonema, antimetathesis.

rhetorical device (noun)	anacoluthon (noun)
a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)	an abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic structure to another

Difference between rhetorical device and anacoluthon

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